WPMU coding is hard

Well, any PHP coding is hard when you don’t have any formal training. I’m trying to figure out a way to adapt the Branford Magazine theme so that the categories list in the “rightcol” is pulled from categories that live on different blogs of a WPMU install. Think of it as pulling sports from my blog, entertainment from your blog, and finance from a third blog. We want to display just the most recent post from each blog in the appropriate category on that blog (Sports, Entertainment, Finance). Our idea is to allow Joe, Matt, and me to maintain our individual blogs but still have things we write show up on the main Instructional Technology site. Actually is it more complicated as my blog doesn’t live on the schools equipment and so direct DB access is not possible for my stuff. We may need to scrap that and just use some sort of RSS feed functionality. Bah, I told you it was hard.